Headline: “Exclusive: #Springer #Nature #retracts, removes nearly 40 publications that trained neural networks on ‘bonkers’ dataset.” www.thetransmitter.org/retraction/e...

I aspire to a state of enlightenment where I can laugh at the LLM fail of the day, tsk-tsk the Altman video being tsked, and then go right back to coding w/ Claude. It's not like we're debating a policy to reduce AI use. It's more like deploring the weather, which I can do even as a user of weather.

Love it: this article argues tongue-in-cheek for a new metric that combines the weight of a researcher's published books divided by the number of years since their doctorate. It is normalised: "A kilogram of philosophy weighs the same as a kilogram of physics." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

My PNC-MLA presentation about the Pairwise PubMed Search Generator has been posted! In it, I put the tool in context and give a demo at the end. #medlibs

My PNC-MLA presentation about the Pairwise PubMed Search Generator has been posted! In it, I put the tool in context and give a demo at the end. #medlibs

I have literally thousands of spreadsheets I've built with Python and I'm showing people examples of them all the time because they're f'n beautiful

excuse me??

Hey #medlibs, I built a tool for making it easier to create proximity search strings in PubMed. Check it out! I presented at PNC-MLA this afternoon and will follow up with a link to the recording when it's posted.

Logged in to ScholarOne for the journal I co-edit and jfc we had as many submissions in 2 weeks as we used to receive in 6 months 😱 Just so you understand why journal desk rejects these days give no feedback - we just can't at this wild volume. Is it the same for other journals and editors?

This National Medical Librarians Month, celebrate their impact by exploring JMLA articles that highlight how librarians enhance evidence-based practice, advance patient care, and amplify scholarly communication. Read here: https://ow.ly/et6S50Xku0n #JMLA #medlibs #healthsciences #NMLM

Happy International RSE Day to all the Research Software Engineers in our community! 💫 #InternationalRSEDay #RSEDay2025 We feel proud that so many members of The Carpentries community are in this vital role for research. We appreciate and celebrate you today. 💙

🧪 AI models and research tools are citing retracted scientific papers, essentially using information struck from the scientific record. The fix is complex, slowed by fragmented databases, inconsistent publisher labels, and training data cutoffs. #AcademicSky #MLSky

🚨 Although we encourage researchers to add institutional emails to their #ORCID records, this article by @retractionwatch.com#ORCIDillustrates the vulnerability of relying on an email domain as the only verification source for a researcher over data from trustworthy member orgs. #Researchsky

Encouraging researchers to select CC BY as the license of choice for preprints maximizes reuse and minimizes the complexity of navigating legal terms when sharing research. Learn more about licensing preprints with CC BY: zenodo.org/records/1428...

In January 2025, life science preprint servers @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social and @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social updated their license selector, placing CC BY at the top of the list. Just six months later, the number of CC BY-licensed preprints has increased for the first time in five years.

"plagiarism" feels like such an understatement for what is going on here. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Come be my boss! We’re looking for a passionate and supportive leader for our Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology. Research in MMI spans diverse models and systems of host-pathogen interactions. Come join us in the beautiful Pacific NW! facultycareers-ohsu.icims.com/jobs/35624/c...

this just out APA Journals Policy on Generative AI: Additional Guidance www.apa.org/pubs/journal... via @apajournals.bsky.social

That feeling when you ship a feature that you've had in mind since 2015... Your Nodes can now be labeled anything, or nothing, or every node in your diagram can have the same label if that's what you want. Here's a Patreon post about it. More documentation to come! www.patreon.com/posts/new-fe...

Keep up to speed on new federal publication sharing requirements. We've organized details of polices by agency - NIH, CDC, NASA, Dept of Ed., NSF & more. Download & compare here: researchsharing.sparcopen.org/publications/ sparcopen.org

3 💡 conclusions from this @timeshighered.bsky.social piece based on @altmetric.com data: 1️⃣ Academic twitter is dead 2️⃣ Bluesky is the most promising alternative 3️⃣ There is a lot of underused 🦋 potential with many dormant (institutional) accounts #academicsky www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

I wish SearchRxiv felt less like a preprint server and more like PyPi.

say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

An outright fanatic who wants to stop all scientific research

IMPORTANT UPDATE IMPORTANT UPDATE Regarding APHU/ACLU et al. vs. NIH Lawsuit

Good Scientific American story about the letters of dissent from 4 federal science agencies (to date)... www.scientificamerican.com/article/trum...

we're getting close to a point where consumer-priced computers can run models nearly as large as deepseek. cheap. not "guzzling water" or "powering a whole home every time u run a query".

One of my Sankey diagrams has been published! This was not a systematic review, but my co-authors did screen and categorize all the search results I found for them in a similar fashion. See Figure 1 at www.jpedsurg.org/article/S002...

“As I sat at home watching shoddy science, poor quality control and opaque research being published and discussed, I felt more and more inspired to become a scientific sleuth,” he says. @lonnibesancon.bsky.social

Maybe the real Ship of Theseus was the Ship of Theseus we made along the way

One could argue that the NIH was overwhelmed by grant applications *way before* availability of LLM text-processing

“The court will next address the hundreds of submitted applications NIH left in limbo. We are working to ensure those proposals are fairly reviewed and that NIH can’t bury the next generation of life-saving research.”

Creative people and people of good will who are allies and advocates for creativity need to come to grips with the fact that AI training is generally fair use for the same deep reasons that critique, parody, teaching, scholarship, and other daily creative practices are fair use.

The NIH Is Capping Research Proposals Because It's Overwhelmed by AI Submissions www.404media.co/nih-capping-...

If you're a researcher from an institution that didn't have the good taste to subscribe to Altmetric, and you have a research project in the scientometric area for which our data could be useful, apply here for free access to our data: www.digital-science.com/blog/2025/07...

This has all been changing *hourly* some days www.authorsalliance.org/2025/07/18/a...

THREAD Universities and Researchers Save The World All the Time In July 2025 Superman once again saved the world on the big screen. Luckily for us, humanity's ranks are filled with real superheroes who are saving the world every day (to less cinematic fanfare.) Here are 5 massive wins: 1/8

An important thread: there are AI problems but crafted them as IP and fair use issues carries series risks

I was very sad when Paul Tol's website went dark earlier this year, but the search engines have found his new site and now I can share the joy that is his color schemes page once again. These are my favorite colorblind-safe palettes. sronpersonalpages.nl/~pault/

Our academic search vendors are struggling to describe their new "AI search", using all sorts of terminology. Worst of all is many of them use "AI powered search" could literally mean anything from using LLM to construct Boolean to doing (dense) embeddings style retrieval and ranking. (1)

you've heard about the college kids who can't do anything without ChatGPT's help—but what about the students who oppose generative A.I. for myriad reasons and refuse to rely on it as a shortcut? well, I found and spoke with a few of them here: slate.com/life/2025/07...

And there it is folks! #medlibs

This post tries to explain why I find language models exciting. But it doesn't try to persuade skeptics that they should agree. It's aimed more at people already working with AI, and its goal is to sharpen our collective sense of what the upside potential might be. #MLSky 🤖 🧪

The journal Bioengineered is going to pause all submissions and are currently investigating over 1000 papers they've published in the past. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... We could only dream of this outcome after our investigation: arxiv.org/abs/2503.21267 1/2

The broken rhetoric of AI: a needed critique of the current AI discourse, that is toxic, performative, and fear-driven. Mike Schindler urging creatives to move beyond clickbait, gaslighting, and elitism. He proposes a couple of interesting alternatives, grounded in dialog, curiosity, community...

NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years. NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."

There are some interesting details about how Anthropic trained their models tucked away in today's summary judgement: they bought, chopped up and scanned millions of dollars worth of books! simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/24/...

One Week, Four Public Library Bomb Threats Bomb threats at libraries have become far too common an occurrence. buttondown.com/wellsourced/...

Did You Work on a Terminated NIH Grant? ProPublica Wants to Hear From You. www.propublica.org/getinvolved/...

Sharing this update provided to me directly about the state of NLM and the future of NNLM, traveling exhibits, and, somehow, MedlinePlus. I am so worried for friends and colleagues, and I'm stuck on that, but it is hard to not want to scream WTF about a MedlinePlus with no new material. #medlibs